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Offline TomB

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Hey all (I fear this may be my new home!)
« on: February 10, 2009, 06:13:24 pm »
Hey all,

I'm Tom, long time Golf lover and finally (well, as of Saturday), a Golf owner!

A few old timers may remember me from other forums as I've previously had Polos.,SEATs and a Corrado, my username on most was toXXin.  Also if you're from Northampton you may know me as I work for GSF.

After almost 6 months of searching for the perfect 3dr MK5 GTI (and seeing 2 Shadow Blues with Sunroof & Leather slip through my fingers) I stopped being fussy and got a good deal from Wayside on a Tornado Red GTI with 17s, xenons, 10 speakers (I think these are options, its MY06) auto wipers, auto lights and a 6CD armrest changer.  Its an 05 with 52k and it still feels like new, but I can't help but do a few things to it.

The current mod list is an iPod dock in place of changer, some decent coilovers and a certain set of 18s I bought last year.  I can see myself swapping the tartan for leather, getting an MFD3 or RCD510, and colour coding the skirts and splitters, but don't persuade me!
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Re: Hey all (I fear this may be my new home!)
« Reply #1 on: February 10, 2009, 06:17:37 pm »
Welcome to the forum!  :smiley: :smiley:

Sounds like you may have had some interesting previous cars! Pictures of them, and your latest purchase are a necessity  :driver: :driver: :driver:
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Re: Hey all (I fear this may be my new home!)
« Reply #2 on: February 10, 2009, 06:18:39 pm »
Welcome to the forum MR Raider we need some

Oh and its not tartan its plaid  :wink:
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Re: Hey all (I fear this may be my new home!)
« Reply #3 on: February 10, 2009, 06:22:23 pm »
welcome again mate  :signLOL:   get some pics of the motors up  :happy2:
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Re: Hey all (I fear this may be my new home!)
« Reply #4 on: February 10, 2009, 06:34:56 pm »
Thanks!

Unfortunately my HDD fried itself a few years ago, and my mum chucked out my backups when I moved out, so I only have pics of a few.  I will get them uploaded, I like a good "old car" thread"!

Does my name show up to you guys as TOMB?  It should be TomB!
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Re: Hey all (I fear this may be my new home!)
« Reply #5 on: February 10, 2009, 06:36:16 pm »
Here is the topic, its a good topic so far, with some lovely cars!

http://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=355.0

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Re: Hey all (I fear this may be my new home!)
« Reply #6 on: February 10, 2009, 06:37:51 pm »
If you hang around for long enough you will realise i dont need much of an opportunity to be stupid.  :laugh:

It does look like tomb.  :P
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Re: Hey all (I fear this may be my new home!)
« Reply #7 on: February 10, 2009, 06:57:49 pm »
Hi Tom, nice to see more SCN'ers on here!

The new car sounds nice, but some of your old ones were pretty good too!
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Re: Hey all (I fear this may be my new home!)
« Reply #8 on: February 10, 2009, 06:58:17 pm »
welcome along matey! ;)
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Re: Hey all (I fear this may be my new home!)
« Reply #9 on: February 10, 2009, 06:59:29 pm »
Welcome fella  :happy2:

You can't get rid of the Interlagos  :surprised: How about some part Leather ED30 syle seats?
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Re: Hey all (I fear this may be my new home!)
« Reply #10 on: February 10, 2009, 07:34:45 pm »
Yeah the interlagos is part of the character of the car, I think the leather looks dull (but am probably in the minority as usual!).
18'' wheels and Remap are the best things you can do to the car.  :happy2:
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Re: Hey all (I fear this may be my new home!)
« Reply #11 on: February 10, 2009, 07:39:25 pm »
I've been driving a Mazda with heated leather for the last few weeks, I'm a convert (and a smoker for my sins), and you can't deny the GTI leather looks great!  A remap is on the cards, but unlike my other cars, I'm not rushing into it.  I have more important mods to do! :)

Hi Andy, how's it going?  Nice to see another familiar name!

Thanks for the warm welcome! :D
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Re: Hey all (I fear this may be my new home!)
« Reply #12 on: February 10, 2009, 07:44:07 pm »
howdo  :happy2:

i grew up in northampton (for my sins)

managed to escape to Cornwall though  :smiley:
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Re: Hey all (I fear this may be my new home!)
« Reply #13 on: February 10, 2009, 08:12:20 pm »
Quote from: BeezerDiesel on February 10, 2009, 07:34:45 pm
Yeah the interlagos is part of the character of the car, I think the leather looks dull (but am probably in the minority as usual!).
18'' wheels and Remap are the best things you can do to the car.  :happy2:

No your not alone  :happy2: I much prefer cloth as Leather is cold in winter and too warm in the summer! Plus the Interlagos has some heritage and brighten's an otherwise dull interior IMHO!  :happy2:
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Re: Hey all (I fear this may be my new home!)
« Reply #14 on: February 10, 2009, 08:13:07 pm »
Welcome to the site
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